Which detail best supports the main idea?
Rain barrels are easy to install and use.

A. It’s great for watering vegetable plants and flowers around your house.

B. One of the benefits of a rain barrel is it holds that first bit of rain that’s coming off the roof or your driveway and prevents it from running into streams and causing erosion from high flows of water.

C. I made my own rain barrel but you can buy them pretty cheaply now.

D. A rain barrel collects and stores water from your roof.

I am pretty sure it is D.

Explanation:

A doesn't give any information on why rain barrels are easy to install or use.

B doesn't either.

C only tells you about how someone made a rain barrel.

D tells you how easy rain barrels are to use.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)